[Discuss] [OT] Microsoft's Standalone System Sweeper

[Richard Pieri]

On Jan 2, 2012, at 7:45 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
> 
> I think it is about time there was a commercial solution for malware
> remediation that didn't depend on the infected OS. I always found the
> idea of downloading and running repair tools on an infected system to be
> tenuous. For the technically inclined, the best option was always to
> boot a live CD (Linux or Windows) and run repair tools from that.

These already exist.  Kaspersky, AVG and others provide live ISO images for burning to CD-R or flash drives.  Most of them run a customized Linux environment of some sort.

Pendrive Linux has a nifty tool called YUMI that installs multiple live images to a single flash drive.  It's a very useful way to build a toolbox.

--Rich P.